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Concerned in the government maybe we ought to do a little hunting and quality background searches to see who we select to fix the stuff? >> right. well, i mean that's been an issue since edward snowden and the nsa who are these contractors getting into our databases it was a focus of kathleen sebelius' testimony, you know, last week. they were kind of -- they were going after her on some of the security flaws that they thought might be. >> i was at that hearing. she didn't say gee we knew qssi had security issues and there was this huge problem last june. i don't remember her saying that at th...

Down but the conversation we're really going to start having is what are the security flaws or vulnerabilities on this site, because you wanted to trust that a site built like this is very, very secure, but what we're beginning to see are security analysts going in and saying oh, hey, there's a vulnerability here and here. cnn money we actually put out an article showing that a string of vulnerabilities would enable someone to go in and potentially reset your password. they've been fixed but that's just the beginning of this. i've been speaking with a lot of folks in the hacker community who s...

To put in the code and say reset password. you you would then get a string of security questions. if you couldn't answer them, it would give you an e-mail so for anyone kind of hacking if they have your e-mail, they can plug it into the internet and social mediaen an find out sensitive information about you that would enable them to likely be able to answer those security questions. so it's a lot of theoreticals but i will tell you this, talk to folks in the hacker community this kind of thing is very easy for people to do and they don't have to be that tech savvy. i'll say this. i spoke to on...

Causing these systems to crash and where the security flaws may be in this also and with that, i'm over time. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. dingell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we are having some questions before us which are very important. [inaudible] okay. i note the problems are not surprising given the fact that there has been considerable obstruction to the program going forward. i received a letter from a constituent recently. she said i only make $12 an hour. i buy my own health insurance on the open market. i barely can afford it so i need to purchase through it for an exchange. and...

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